Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
i, 308, i leaves : 176 x 104 (126 x 65) mm, bound to 178 x 110 mm
Treatise on religious practices to be performed during each month of the year
Manuscript codex
Title from introduction (f. 1r)
Layout: 18 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, Arabic vocalized
Decoration: Gold and polychrome headpiece (f. 2v) with halkari (gold wash) leaves and vines marginal fill, text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); illuminated double-page finispiece in the shape of two cypress trees (f. 307v-308r); textblock border-ruled in double gold; page-opening frame-ruled in gold; rubrications and overlining in red
Origin: Copy completed on 21 Rajab 1215 AH (December 1800) by Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī (f. 308r)
Shelfmark: MS Or 225
Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934
Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 2r, 308v)
Lacquered cover of flowers on red background; inside covers depict a large, single flower on a brown background with smaller flowers around the base
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description
Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR
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